How To Clean Subversion Directories

Easier method for GNU/Linux user is to remove all .svn directories with following command:
rm -rf `find ./ -name “.svn”`
And all .svn folder found in current directory are recursively deleted.

To make a java app doing that and then posting about it is the stupidest thing I ever saw. Why not just use find?

Change to root directory folder and type:

find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm {} -R \;

Just for linux!

This worked fine for me and was exactly what I wanted. I simply wanted to remove all the Subversion artifacts from a directory structure without having to actually have Subversion loaded or creating a bogus Ant target. This did the trick as expected.

Thanks!

Hm, that nuked my build.xml target tags, try this version…

<target name=”clean-environment” depends=”clean-gen”
description=”Clean all Eclipse/Subversion environment files and directories”>
<delete includeemptydirs=”true” failonerror=”false”>
<fileset dir=”${basedir}” defaultexcludes=”no”>
<include name=”**/.svn/**” />
<include name=”**/.settings/**” />
<include name=”**/.classpath” />
<include name=”**/.project” />
<include name=”**/.tomcatplugin” />
</fileset>
</delete>
</target>

If you prefer an Ant-based solution to deleting hidden/read-only work directories, the ‘defaultexcludes’ option is your friend.

That java prog didn’t work for me, and I was too lazy to whip up a script. Neither did that rsync script. So, I created local svn repo and used import/export.

% svnadmin create /tmp
% svn import . file:////tmp
% svn export file:////tmp

Thanks for the tips.

Or, if you have rsync you can to this…

rsync -C /path/to/source/ /path/to/dest

The -C option excludes .svn directories on a copy.

’svn export’ is your friend.